Aperture on a 4 years old Mac book.

Hi,
A would like to open my *.NEF files of my camera (D5100 Canon). For this I have seen that I need the last updates of Apreture but I only have the 10.5.8 update of Mac OS X, and I have seen that I need the Mac OS X Lion update so the Mac OS X Snow Leopard also.
My Mac Book is 4 years old :
Processor: 2,1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory: 1 Go 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
I know that the last update of Aperture can run on my computer but I would like to know if with the new exploitation system and the last update of Aperture my computer will run normally or if it will be slower. For the while I don’t have Aperure at all.
Thanking you in advance for your answer.

An excellent RAM vendor is OWC:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/Pro/Core2/
They will also answer questions, provide tools, etc. regarding the feasibility of your RAM upgrade. Great folks that I have bought from for decades.
Upgrading the RAM to maximum is essential. Once RAM is upgraded to 3 GB I believe your Mac will run 10.7.4, and OS 10.7.4 will convert D5100 NEF files with or without Aperture.
Note that in general newer versions of apps and OSs take advantage of more RAM. This is a good thing because RAM is cheap and designing around more RAM improves performance. However it is not so good for old laptops trying to run state-of-the-art images management applications like Aperture. OS 10.7 uses more RAM than previous OS versions, so when running Aperture with only 3 GB RAM I suggest:
• Try to run Aperture by itself. For sure quit apps like browsers when running Aperture.
• Restart before Aperture work sessions to clear possible memory leaks
• and/or switch from 64-bit operation to 32-bit operation (which will make some additional RAM space available). See Switching Kernels:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3773?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
I believe that with 3 GB RAM it will all work, but my own old laptop is on 10.6.8 so I have no personal experience with 10.7 on an old MB. My 2011 MBP runs Aperture 3.2, OS 10.7.4 and 8 GB RAM and it rocks.
HTH
-Allen

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